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Minotaur I/II rockets peel themselves like bananas during launch and if that ain't the most whimsical shit

the reason they do this is because the first stage is based on the Minuteman missile, which was designed to launch from a climate controlled missile silo. when your launch pad is out in the open in the hot, humid Virginia air, the rocket can actually get damaged by heat and condensation.

the people developing it into an orbital launch vehicle wanted to change as little as possible from the original missile to lower production costs, so instead of changing the structure of the booster or whatever, they just wrapped it in an insulating blanket. to save weight, the blanket gets peeled off by cables during launch. it's actually quite a clever solution!

they did not have to make that shit banana yellow though that ones definitely on purpose. looney tunes ass rocket.

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currently i work in food delivery, which is a physically demanding job with long hours, and yet the salary barely covers my rent, antidepressants and basic food needs. i will continue to try and get myself out of this situation, search for better jobs, look into tutoring starting this autumn, but any extra help i can get will be greatly appreciated. if every tenth of my follower count donated a dollar, that would already make a sizeable amount of money that will help me survive and move forward. 

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Voyager Golden Record, a 4* Foreigner-class Servant!

Golden Record was a disk sent out to space aboard Voyagers 1 and 2, with the purpose of telling extraterrestrial life about Earth and human life if it were to ever come in contact with them. In its trek in interstellar space, it was found by the Blackness of the Stars, an Outer God made out of cosmic matter. 

An Outer God who had never made any attempts to communicate, and a disk made with the exact purpose to communicate with otherwordly beings- a unison that ended up as a Heroic Spirit.

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I'd like to see Explorer in his army uniform, even though he's supposed to be a 'civilian' satellite. I mean, they didn't almost name him 'Top Kick' for nothing! On an unrelated note, I do not support the War in Viet Nam!

Hey presto! Launch provider cosplay!

The Explorer program was a pitch from the US Army, it competed directly with the Navy's Vanguard for the title of America's first satellite, and amongst its plethora of banging potential names also included "Highball", "Deal" and "Missile 29" (which I love). But having been mainly built by JPL citizens, I didn't give my personification of their first satellite much military flair—nor much of a closet for that matter—so this was a fun prompt to shake things up!

At first, the sheer amount of uniforms tore me on what would be best fit and that's JUST counting the 50s iterations, but then I thought it'd be a great moment to introduce his near-identical siblings who could just model in his place. Two birds, one stone! Meet 3 and 4. :-)

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It's a 3-and-1/2-human-sized-coveralls-stitched-together sort of dig